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Born Bermuda 3 October 1973 (age 39), Nationality British, Occupation Actress,
Years active 1992present, Spouse Peter Loughran (m. 2007) (filed for divorce) Children 1
Lena Headey was born in Bermuda, where her father, John, a Yorkshire police cadet, was stationed. She grew up there and in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Headey had her first experience of acting as a pupil at Shelley College and was noticed at 17 when she was spotted performing in a school production at the Royal National Theatre being picked for a role opposite Grant Warnock in the 1992 film Waterland.
Headey was once engaged to Johnny Cicco, and dated actor Jason Flemyng for nine years. She and Flemyng met during the filming of The Jungle Book, and she has a tattoo of his name in Thai on her arm. She married musician Peter Loughran in May 2007. Headey and Loughran have a son, Wylie Loughran, who was born on 31 March 2010. Headey and Loughran separated in 2011 and she filed for divorce in Los Angeles Superior Court on 20 July 2012.
She is close friends with actress Piper Perabo. She is a vegetarian, and has campaigned on behalf of animal rights. She practices boxing and yoga. "I also started Bikram Yoga." She said in an interview: "A few years ago I used to box in London and that held me in good stead".
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JOWHAR, Somalia -- Fighting erupted at the airport of Jowhar which situates 10 KM away from the town between Somali government forces aided by AMISOM troops and Al Shabaab militants on Sunday night, Garowe Online reports.
You're wondering: who? where?
Local reports say that Al Shabaab fighters attacked the airport of Middle Shabelle regional capital of Jowhar 90 KMs northwest of Mogadishu
...I'm guessing United Express doesn't go there...
and in response to militants attacked the airport, the Somali government and AMISOM forces repulsed Al Shabaab attack on Jowhar airport. Reliable sources in Jowhar confirmed to Garowe Online that the dead included four people from the opposing sides.
Gen. Mohamed Mohamud Saney, the commander of Somali army's second division stationed in Middle Shabelle region told the media that they killed members of Al Shabaab militants in the battle and some others were wounded.
"We repulsed the attack on our bases, I can say the battle was planned ambush but we foiled it and Al Shabaab ran away fled with injuries,' Said Gen. Saney.
On the other hand, a spokesman for Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group said they have targeted the allied forces' military bases and reached their goal.
"We intended to be repulsed. Why? 'Cause we're repulsive!"
Jowhar is agriculture-rich district and former Al Shabaab stronghold. Somali government forces backed by AMISOM troops liberated it from Al Shabaab militants in December 2012.
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GAROWE, Somalia - Two men accused and convincted in court for the assassination of Sheikh Abdulkadir Nur Farah, the Mufti of Puntland, were executed by Puntland military court Tuesday in the capital Garowe, Garowe Online reports.
Executing shaboobs? I like the cut of their jibs...
The two men Abdirahman Hussein Jama Bile and Abdullahi Osman Ahmed (Aynte) were executed by a Puntland firing squad, with Puntland officials including members of the judiciary, security chiefs and relatives of the late Sheikh Abdulkadir present for the execution.
Sheikh Abdulkadir was gunned down during afternoon prayers inside Badr mosque in Garowe on Friday Feb. 15, 2013, and the killer Bile was captured by the public after he attempted a violent escape. The other convicted member of Al Shabaab terrorist network, Mr. Aynte, escaped to neighboring Somaliland but was returned to Puntland authorities on March 13, at the conclusion of dialogue between Puntland and Somaliland officials.
On May 24, the Puntland military court sentenced two death seven persons responsible for the killing of Sheikh Abdulkadir. Five of them were sentenced in absentia, court records reveal. The convicted men lost an appeals case and the Puntland military appeals court upheld the death verdict on July 16.
From capture to execution in under five months. I think that's called 'justice'...
On Feb. 16, Puntland government leaders, Somali federal government officials, Islamic scholars from all regions of Somalia, and the Puntland public attended the funeral of Sheikh Abdulkadir in Garowe, where Puntland leader Abdirahman Mohamed Farole and the Islamic scholars blamed Al Shabaab militants for the sheikhs assassination.
On Feb. 24, thousands of people took to the streets in Garowe and condemned Al Shabaab group for the wave of terrorism attacks in Somalia.
On April 30, Puntland military court in Bossaso executed 13 persons including a woman. The executed prisoners were convicted of conducting killings and terrorism attacks in Puntland on behalf of Al Shabaab group, including the killing of Sheikh Ahmed Haji Abdirahman in Bossaso in Dec. 2011.
After the executions, Al Shabaabs spokesman Ali Dheere threatened more terrorist attacks in Puntland targeting judiciary personnel and the security forces.
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[AnNahar] A roadside kaboom killed two forest rangers in the Bouira region southeast of Algiers on Tuesday, Algeria's APS news agency reported.
In the 1990s, Algeria witnessed a devastating decade-long civil war pitting the army against Islamist snuffies after it cancelled elections Islamists had been poised to win.
Some 200,000 people were killed, according to official figures.
There has been a sharp drop in violence in recent years, although groups affiliated with al-Qaeda remain active in the countryside around Algiers, in the Kabylie region east of the capital and in the deep south.
Rangers have been targeted in the fighting as the Islamists have set up base in forest areas where human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... groups have accused the security forces of resorting to torching woodland to burn them out.
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[AnNahar] A rocket struck an apartment block in the center of the Libyan capital on Tuesday in an attack that caused no casualties, an Agence La Belle France Presse correspondent reported.
The building is located in a residential area of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... between the Corinthia hotel and a tower that houses the British, Canadian and Maltese embassies, as well as foreign companies.
The projectile hit a balcony and sparked a fire in an apartment, which residents said was empty at the time, before firefighters extinguished the blaze.
Members of the security forces at the scene said the rocket had been fired by remote control from a vehicle in the car park of the building.
A rocket-launcher could be seen inside the charred vehicle.
Residents said the target of the attack was likely to have been the Corinthia hotel.
Assailants have frequently attacked Western targets in Libya since the fall of Muammar Qadaffy ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years until his people get tired of him and kill him... in a 2011 armed uprising backed by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... air power.
Most attacks have occurred in the east of the country, the birthplace of the uprising, which is a stronghold of Islamic bad boys.
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[Ynet] Egyptian media reported that armed forces of Evil tried to blow up an armed Egyptian army vehicle by detonating an bomb along the road connecting Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah in the Sinai peninsula.
According to the reports, there were no injures or damage in the kaboom.
At least 11 people, mostly security personnel, were injured at an overnight blast targeting the security department headquarters in Mansoura city of Egypt's Daqahliya governorate, a security source told Xinhua.
"The injured people are about 11 so far and we're still in the process of counting and investigation," said brigadier-general Saeed Emara, head of Daqahliya criminal investigation department.
Meanwhile, Abdel-Wahhab Suleiman, the health ministry undersecretary at Daqahliya, told Xinhua that the people injured in the bombing were 12, including six security men and six civilians. "They all were sent to Mansoura Emergency Hospital," the health ministry official added.
On the other hand, some eyewitnesses reaffirmed that they have seen people killed in the bombing, yet no deaths have been officially reported yet.
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[Guardian Ng] FOLLOWING intelligence reports from Maiduguri, residents to members of Borno Vigilance Youths Group (BVYG) and military Joint Task Force (JTF) on Sunday, killed seven Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... terror suspects and locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! six others in Bama town, after two-hour house-to-house search operations in two wards of the township by 4 p.m.
Bama is a border town with Cameroun; and 78 kilometres east of Maiduguri, the state capital; and an epicentre of Boko Haram sect activities.
The arrested suspects, according to an eyewitness Monday, were picked up by the vigilance youths that stormed the suspected hideouts of fleeing Boko Haram sect members.
He said: "We were sitting under this tree shade; when we saw some youths with sticks, knives and cutlasses in two buses and five tricycles headed towards Tandari ward of Bama town. Five minutes, after soldiers in their patrol vehicles also backed up the youths before the fleeing gunnies were arrested in the evening.
He said even though there were no exchanges of gunfire initially between the fleeing terror suspects and soldiers, seven of them were however, bumped off while attempting to escape towards the outskirts of Tandari areas of Bama town.
Speaking on the house-to-house searches, the source told The Guardian that the Boko Haram sect members must have fled from the destroyed Sambisa Games Reserves Forest, while others could have infiltrated the township from Maiduguri or Konduga, before they were rounded up here yesterday by vigilance youths and JTF.
A hospital attendant at the Specialists Hospital, Maiduguri also said that seven bodies were brought in by a JTF patrol vehicle from Bama by 5.35 p.m. on Sunday.
Confirming the incident yesterday, front man of JTF, Lt. Col Sagir Musa said that the soldiers assisted the vigilance youths in the arrest of six terror suspects at Bama, while seven were killed in an exchange of gunfire in one of the suspects' hideouts. The youths, according to him, were escorted by men of JTF; and returned safely to Maiduguri metropolis without being hurt or killed in the Bama youth's operations.
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[LEADERSHIP.NG] The Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Imam Shekau, and his deputy, Muhammad Marwana, have reportedly disagreed over the issue of dialogue and ceasefire with the federal government.
I vote for a shootout. Them and all their supporters and an infinite supply of bullets... And let Allah show by his mercy which side he's on.
Shekau, message sent through YouTube, said that that there was no dialogue or ceasefire pact with the federal government, but the deputy leader of the sect, Marwana, in his own statement disclosed to the Voice of America (VOA) that Shekau's comment via YouTube was his personal opinion and not that of the sect.
"Shekau speaks his own opinion," he told the VOA.
Marwana, in a comment he sent to the VOA via email, he said the sect was fully ready to meet with the committee on dialogue.
He stated some of the actions the security agencies took against Shekau's family and said, "That is why we took verdict for retaliation."
Marwana, however, said: "There is a need to meet with the committee and let's forgive one another and make sure that there is no rivalry between us and the populace."
Marwana also urged Nigerians to shun any statement made by Shekau, especially as they relate to attacks.
"Anybody that hears issue of attack from Abubakar Shekau should go and sleep; nothing will happen by the grace of God," he added.
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[DAILYPOST.NG] Three suspected Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Death Eaters over the weekend invaded the El- Amin Daggash Mosque in Government Reserved Area, GRA, in Maiduguri, Borno State.
The suspected terrorists, who allegedly came all the way from Bama council, allegedly attempted to kill a preacher, Modu Mustapha, during Tafsir (Ramadan Preaching).
They were, however, lynched by angry mobs, leading to the arrest of two of the suspects while one died in the process.
Whoops! Clearly this lot are not among Allah's favourites. No Paradise with all that sexy decor for them.
So the angry mob lynched three and only one died? Sheesh, they can't do anything right...
DailyPost gathered that the terrorists, who were armed with AK 47 rifles and a piston, came with a Golf Saloon car and one tricycle.
A source told our correspondent that the incident happened at about 4 pm, when the Tafsir programme was going on.
The source said a concerned resident who had sighted one of the Death Eaters with a pistol sitting uncomfortably inside the congregation, alerted the residents.
According to him, the mob beat the suspect to death and tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! two others while they were trying to escape.
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... the Joint Task Force in Maidugri has dismissed the alleged planned attack, describing it as an error of judgement by a policeman on duty.
In a press statement which was signed by the JTF Spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa and made available to Journalists in Maiduguri said, "the JTF wishes to clear the air on what happened at the vicinity of El-Amin Daggash Mosque in GRA, Maiduguri on Saturday 20th July, 2013.
"The incident was not a terrorist attack as insinuated, rather, it was an error of judgement by a policeman on duty that pursued someone who allegedly stole a tricycle and a bag of rice and drove off. The policeman was in Mufti, wore Nigeria Police Force (NPF) Reflective Jacket, pursued the alleged thief and fired two gun shots", the statement noted.
Sagir said, the incident happened very close to the said Mosque when Ramadan preaching was on, adding that the firing by the policeman attracted the attention of worshippers including youth vigilantes popularly known as 'Civilian JTF' that were within and around the Mosque.
The JTF Spokesman said, "as a result, there was pandemonium that led to the death of one minor and three others sustained injuries".
He noted that the vigilante lynched the policeman, burnt the Toyota Carina Saloon Car (that the Policeman was in) and the tricycle, before the JTF patrol team rescued the policeman, calmed the youths and restored normality to the area.
In another development, over 50 suspected Death Eaters were over the weekend arrested in Maduganari ward area of Maiduguri Metropolis with the assistance of civilian JTF (vigilante youths) and men of the JTF.
The incident, which took place on Saturday, was based on intelligence report that some of the fleeing Death Eaters around Sambisa Game Reserve Forest and Bullabulin Ngarnam areas who survived the military offensive had regrouped to Maduganari with the aim of launching fresh attacks during the Ramadan Fasting.
Maduganari is one of the peaceful wards of Maiduguri metropolis which had not witnessed any killings and bombings even during the heat of the crisis.
A military source said the suspects were picked up by the joint effort of the JTF and vigilant youths at a hideout, adding that they recovered many arms and ammunitions in the process.
Confirming the arrest of the terror suspects, the JTF Spokesman, Leuitenant Colonel Sagir Musa in an interview with newsmen said, there was a massive arrests of suspected Boko Haram Terrorists in Maduganari over the weekend, but could not give the actual number of those arrested.
He added that the arrest was made based on intelligence report, stressing that after interrogation, those found not guilty of associating or being members of terrorist groups would be released.
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came with a Golf Saloon car and one tricycle.
Got your flying column right here.
Bahrain security forces are on the lookout for more suspects in connection with the last weeks car bomb blast which occured in the parking lot of the Shaikh Isa bin Salman mosque in Riffa.
Three Bahrainis were arrested; Hussain Hassan Abas Al Madhoon, 25, Ali Mohammed Habib Mohammed Ashor, 34 and Zuhair Jassim Mohammed Abas, 32. They have been referred to the public prosecution, while the search to identify and arrest additional suspects continues, Chief of Public Security Major-General Tareq Hassan Al Hassan told a Press conference.
Those behind the act stole two cars in Salmabad; a dark blue Chevrolet SUV and a private pickup. A homemade bomb connected to explosives and a remote detonator was placed in one of the SUV.
Al Hassan said that the first suspect, Hussain Al Madhoom, drove the car that was detonated, while Ali Mohammed Habib drove the second car that was used for thier escape.
Hussain Al Madhoom parked the car near the mosque, got into the second stolen car and then the bomb was detonated before escaping the site of the blast, he said, adding that investigators traced the movements of the two cars via CCTV footage.
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[AnNahar] A Ukrainian man charged with the "terrorist-related" murder of an elderly Moslem man has also been charged over three mosque bombings in central England, a court heard on Tuesday.
Pavlo Lapshyn, a 25-year-old postgraduate student from the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk, was incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! last week as part of the investigation into the kabooms.
He was later charged with the murder of 82-year-old grandfather Mohammed Saleem, who was stabbed in the back in Birmingham, central England, on April 29 as he walked home from prayers.
Westminster Magistrates' Court in London was told on Tuesday that Lapshyn is now also charged with carrying out a series of acts with the intention to commit acts of terrorism.
The offences relate to three kabooms in the central English towns of Walsall, Wolverhampton and Tipton in the last month.
The charges include purchasing batteries, a lunch bag, a clock and a container as part of the construction of an bomb.
He is also accused of purchasing chemicals to make bombs, modifying mobile phones to act as detonators, and carrying out Internet research.
Wearing a black top and with closely-cropped hair, and flanked by a team of police and security guards, Lapshyn spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth and to request to speak to his lawyer.
He was remanded in jug and will next appear at a bail hearing at England's central criminal court, the Old Bailey, on July 25.
A second Ukrainian man arrested in connection with the mosque bombings has been released without charge.
The pair was arrested on July 18 after the remnants of home-made explosives were found outside a mosque in Tipton on July 12 and in Walsall on June 22.
Evidence of an kaboom was later found on a roundabout near the Wolverhampton Central Mosque.
No one was injured in the kabooms.
Lapshyn came to Britannia to complete a work placement at a software company in Birmingham, police said, adding that officers were working with Ukrainian authorities to learn more about his past.
There has been a rise in anti-Moslem incidents in Britannia since May, when a soldier was hacked to death on a London street in a suspected Islamist attack.
The kaboom at the Tipton mosque coincided with the funeral of 25-year-old Lee Rigby, who was murdered in broad daylight near his barracks in Woolwich, southeast London on May 22.
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A total of six individuals have died in ongoing drug and gang related violence in southern Chihuahua state, according to Mexican news reports.
On Tuesday reports reached the delegate for the Chihuahua state Fiscalia General del Estado (FGE) or attorney general that a shootout between rival gangs had left six dead in Guadalupe y Calvo municipality.
According to a report which appeared in the online edition of El Diario de Chihuahua news daily, an anonymous tip was phoned in Sunday about the gunfight, but security forces were not able to reached the area, said to be near Mesa de la Reforma, which is now a trouble spot for drug gang violence including kidnapping in Guadalupe y Calvo municipality. Drug gangs are known to put up roadblocks in that region specifically to press any captured male victims traveling through the area into service.
In the location of the shootout, according to a separate news account which appeared in the website of EL Diario de Coahuila news daily, some of the dead were found clothed in the uniforms of Chihuahua state police agents. Chihuahua state Policia Estatal Unica and ministerial agents had been unable to reach the area due to heavy rains and flooding until Tuesday morning. The shootout was said to have taken place Sunday afternoon.
At the scene of the shootout, police found 389 spent cartridge casings for AK-47 rifles as well as a 1999 GMC pickup truck damaged from gunfire. Two of the six dead were identified as Cristian Noriel Mendivil Carrillo, 20, of Dolores, and Isaac Gutierrez Gutierre, 19, of La Mesa de Reforma. Two of the six victims had been beheaded though the report failed to note if the two identified victims were the victims who had been mutilated.
Police also found six buildings damaged by fire in a nearby abandoned area and they seized seven vehicles.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and Borderlandbeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
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At least 10 unidentified individuals have been killed and several more wounded in southern Tamaulipas state in the aftermath of the capture of Los Zetas leader Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, AKA Z-40, according to Mexican news reports.
An APRO wire dispatch which appeared in the online edition of El Diario de Coahuila news daily said that operatives of the Gulf Cartel had been firing indiscriminately over a two day period at residents of ejido Fe del Golfo in Jimenez municipality last Sunday.
According to the report several Gulf Cartel shooters arrived at the ejido and ordered residents to leave, firing on them as they did.
The reason why the ejido was ordered to vacate was not clear. The Gulf Cartel maintains a logistics and training camp in the region said to house as many as 100 shooters. The camp is so large, according to the report, that Mexican Army and Tamauliupas state security troops refuse to enter the area. Abasolo municipality is also reportedly another no go zone for federal and state security elements.
Unconfirmed reports have been made of armed confrontations between armed suspects and detachments of Mexican Naval Infantry in Gonzalez and Magiscatzin municipalities. At least eight armed suspects have been killed in Magiscatzin municipality.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and Borderlandbeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
Two suspected terrorists militants have been killed in the Russian republic of Dagestan.
An Interior Ministry spokesman said, The driver and the passenger of a car that police officers stopped for a check opened fire near the town of Makhachkala. The attackers were killed by return fire. Three policemen were wounded.
According to a preliminary investigation, the attackers were members of a Dagestani gang, and both born in 1991, the Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee reported Tuesday.
[Ynet] Turkish security forces killed a civilian when they returned fire on a group of people trying to cross illegally from Turkey into Syria, the Turkish military said on Tuesday, as tensions increase along the border.
The group of eight civilians had been trying to cross from Turkey's Hatay province into northwestern Syria on Monday afternoon and opened fire on the Turkish border patrol after the troops had sounded an audible warning, it said. The troops returned fire in line with their rules of engagement, killing one of the civilians.
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[ABCNEWS.GO] Insurgents assaulted a police headquarters in northern Iraq early Wednesday, killing nine coppers as part of a series of attacks that left at least 14 dead as the country grapples with a growing surge of violence.
The attack took place in the town of Bashmaya outside the city of djinn-infested Mosul, which has been one of the major flashpoints in a wave of bloodshed that has washed over the country since April and left more than 3,000 people dead. The scale of the violence is intensifying fears of a return to the widespread sectarian killing that pushed the country to the brink of civil war after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
A police official said nine coppers were killed and two maimed in the initial attack. An ambulance rushing to the scene was hit by a roadside kaboom, wounding the driver and his assistant, the official said.
A medical official confirmed the casualty figures. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to talk to the media.
Insurgents this year have regularly attacked security forces in djinn-infested Mosul, a longtime Death Eater stronghold.
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On Monday, a jacket wallah rammed his explosives-laden car into an army convoy, killing at least 13 people including 10 soldiers. Police found the bodies of four off-duty coppers Tuesday on a road with bullet wounds in their heads. Gunmen in a speeding car also rubbed out two other off-duty coppers as they were walking down a street.
Also Wednesday, a boom-mobilewent kaboom! as an army patrol passed by outside the northern city of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... killing an officer and a solider, police Lt. Col. Abbas Qadir said. Five soldiers were maimed, he said. Kirkuk is 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... .
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Also with the jailbreak, sounds like its getting real.
[AnNahar] Bombs targeting worshipers gathered for evening prayers at three Sunni mosques in Iraq killed nine people on Tuesday, officials said.
A bomb went kaboom! in the Omar bin Abdulaziz Mosqe in the northern city of Kiruk, while another blast struck near Al-Salihin Mosque close by, killing a total of seven people and wounding 41.
And a boom-mobilewent kaboom! near Al-Imam Ali Mosque in Kut, southeast of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , killing two people and wounding nine.
Special extended evening prayers are held during the holy Moslem fasting month of Ramadan, which began two weeks ago.
Both Sunni and Shiite places of worship have been attacked in recent months, raising fears of a return to the all-out sectarian conflict that killed tens of thousands of people in past years.
With the latest attacks, more than 630 people have been killed in violence so far this month, making July the deadliest month in a year marked by spiraling violence.
A Buddhist couple was gunned down in front of their 4-year-old son yesterday in the latest attack in Narathiwat province. Police blamed an terrorist insurgent group for the attack, which also left the child wounded.
Police who were called to the scene found the child frightened and crying next to his dead father and mother The boy was also hurt in the shooting when their motorcycle, driven by his father, toppled over after the father was shot in the head by an attacker. The attackers then stole the family's motorcycle and fled. Investigators are searching for the men, who they believe are members of a separatist group in Narathiwat.
Meanwhile, in Pattani province, meanwhile a village official in Yarang district was shot by an attacker as he worked in a rubber plantation yesterday. The victim was injured but managed to return fire, prompting the attacker to flee.
In Narathiwat province, police probing the death of a couple in Cho Airong district on July 21 believe they were shot by terrorists militants who were seeking revenge for the death of their leader Suphian Mama. A key Runda Kumpulan Kecil guerrilla suspect, Suphian was killed by security officers on July 19.
I even saw a picture the other day of the rebels using a trebuchet.
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Improv is part of it, but the guy with two right arms on slide 1/25, 24/25 makes no sense at all, working a grinder till the edge glows and doofus on the right looking for his coffee, 17/25 looks totally off balance and makes me want to throw a photoshop flag. Its good propaganda, if the cameraman didn't have a knot on his forehead.
[AnNahar] Warplanes and helicopter gunships carried out intense air raids across Syria on Tuesday as fighting raged in and around the capital between regime and rebel forces, a watchdog said.
The raids killed five people in the town of Tabqa in the northern province of Raqa, and six others, including two women and three children, in Sermin in the northwestern province of Idlib, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The air force also battered the southern province of Daraa, Homs in central Syria and Aleppo in the north, including the town of Khan al-Assal which rebels claimed to have captured on Monday, the Observatory said.
Five other people were died when artillery rounds struck Douma, a satellite suburb northeast of Damascus, where violence killed another seven people, including two children.
In the south of the capital, troops pounded the Paleostinian refugee camp of Yarmuk for the third consecutive day while regime forces and rebels were locked in fierce fighting inside the camp, the Observatory said.
Government forces also shelled neighborhoods in the south, east and north of Damascus.
On Monday at least 159 people were killed in violence across Syria, said the Observatory, which relies on a network of activists and medics on the ground for its information.
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[AniNahar] The army succeeded on Monday in arresting a suspect linked to the bombing of a Hizbullah convoy near the al-Masnaa border-crossing on July 16, reported the National News Agency on Tuesday.
It said that the army intelligence jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! a Syrian national in the Bekaa town of Majdal Anjal on suspicion of planting the explosive that targeted the convoy.
It identified the suspect as A.H., who hails from the Syrian city of al-Zabadani.
Two people were maimed in a kaboom against a Hizbullah convoy that was traveling towards the Lebanese border-crossing with Syria on July 16.
One vehicle was struck by the kaboom near the al-Masnaa border-crossing, while the other vehicles in the convoy escaped the attack and continued along the road.
The bombing is the fourth time that a vehicle has been targeted by an bomb in the Bekaa region, which is a stronghold of Hizbullah.
On July 7, three people were maimed, including two army troops when two bombs went kaboom! in the area.
That attack followed a similar blast on June 28, when two small bombs hit a Hizbullah convoy in the area, detonating as four cars passed, a security source said.
Hizbullah has dispatched fighters to battle alongside the Syrian regime against rebels seeking the overthrow of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... The party had justified its intervention in Syria by saying it was backing popular committees defending Lebanese-inhabited towns in Syrian territory near Leb's border from attacks by rebels and krazed killers. It had also admitted that its fighters were guarding Shiite holy shrines in Damascus province.
[Ynet] Media outlets in Syria and Leb that are affiliated with the Syrian opposition reported that a senior commander in the Syrian army, Mohamed Ali Abu Sliman, was killed in battles with rebels in a Damascus suburb.
Some of the reports stated that Syrian state TV had announced the death. Abu Sliman is an operations and special ops commander in the Syrian army's presidential guard.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
GAROWE, Somalia - Two men accused and convincted in court for the assassination of Sheikh Abdulkadir Nur Farah, the Mufti of Puntland, were executed by Puntland military court Tuesday in the capital Garowe, Garowe Online reports.
[LEADERSHIP.NG] The Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Imam Shekau, and his deputy, Muhammad Marwana, have reportedly disagreed over the issue of dialogue and ceasefire with the federal government. 
[DAILYPOST.NG] Three suspected 
Two suspected 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
